Group Spotlight

Congratulations to Srinivas Subramanyam who has received his Doctoral degree and will start working at Eastman Chemicals as an advanced research scientist. (06/03/2016)

Congratulations to Taylor Farnham who has received his Master’s degree and will start working as a Mechanical Design Engineer at LiquiGlide – one of the startups that originated in the Varanasi Research Group. (06/03/2016)

Sami Khan, PhD Student in Varanasi Group was awarded the Doctoral Postgraduate Scholarship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. There were 1586 applicants and 400 recipients were selected. (06/01/2016)

Congratulations to graduate students Henri-Louis Girard and Samantha McBride on passing the Qualifying Examinations. They are now PhD candidates in the department of Mechanical Engineering. (05/27/2016)

Congratulations to graduate students Maher Damak and Sami Khan on passing the Qualifying Examinations. They are now PhD candidates in the department of Mechanical Engineering. (01/29/2016)

Dr. Sushant Anand, Postdoc in the Varanasi Group will begin his Assistant Professorship this Fall 2015 Academic Year at the University of Illinois-Chicago in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department. (08/19/2015)

Dr. Jolet de Ruiter has been awarded the Rubicon Grant Fellowship by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NOW) Physics Division for “Study of drop Impact and Freezing dynamics under icing conditions, as a basis for new anti-icing Materials” The fellowship is set to begin in mid August 2015. (08/19/2015)